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Sinead O’Connor’s Life in Pictures

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With her short hair and wide eyes, the Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, who has died at the age of 56, cast a powerful silhouette onstage during her music career. The height of her power came in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including a divisive 1992 appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in which she ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II to protest sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.

O’Connor told Rolling Stone in 1991 that her record company, Ensign, wanted her to wear high-heel boots and tight jeans and grow her hair out. “I decided that they were so pathetic,” she said, “that I shaved my head.”

O’Connor at the Olympic Ballroom in Dublin in 1988.Independent News and Media/Getty Images
O’Connor performing at the Rock Torhout festival in Belgium in 1990.Paul Bergen/Redferns, via Getty Images
O’Connor ripping up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992.NBC
O’Connor at the MTV Video Music Awards in Universal City, Calif., in 1993.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection, via Getty Images
O’Connor with Peter Gabriel at a fund-raising concert in the Netherlands in 1991.Michel Linssen/Redferns, via Getty Images
O’Connor in Lourdes, France, in 1999.Michael Crabtree/PA Images, via Getty Images
O’Connor at a protest in Dublin in 1989.Independent News and Media/Getty Images
O’Connor holding her daughter, Roisin, in Dublin in 2000.Reuters
O’Connor on Gay Byrne’s final episode of “The Late Late Show” in 1999.David Conachy/Independent News and Media, via Getty Images
O’Connor and Courtney Love at the Old Vic theater in London in 2005.Dave Benett/Getty Images
O’Connor in Bray, Ireland, in 2012.David Corio for The New York Times
O’Connor at Lincoln Center in New York in 2013.Ruby Washington/The New York Times
O’Connor at her home in Wicklow, Ireland, in 2021.Ellius Grace for The New York Times

Source: Music - nytimes.com

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